Example sentences of "because [pers pn] had [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kondratieff presented few data for growth from 1789 to 1814 from countries other than Britain because they had little growth to analyse . |
| 2 | Thus , for example , it was excusable for a pretty young girl to avoid wearing a seat-belt because she had been topping up her tan on the sun bed and got burnt , for two middle-class school children to ride their bikes without lights late at night because they were trying to stay up on their last might of the summer holidays , and for lads to urinate in the street because they had three miles to walk home . |
| 3 | And then do you see , he had taken most of the stuff from here , because he had four sawmills going do you see . |
| 4 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 5 | Whether it was because he had other fish to fry is unrecorded , but Hartlepool 's chippies had made the law courts before . |
| 6 | But after they had finished eating ( which seemed to the travellers to take for ever ) , Goibniu sent the other giants out of the room , because he had important business to discuss . |